Education

Pain Fellowship, Queen’s Medical University, Nottingham UK, 1998
FCPS (Anaesthesiology), College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 1996
MBBS, Dow Medical College of Karachi, 1990

Training

Fellowship in Anaesthesiology, Queens Medical Center, Nottingham, England, 1998

Research interests

Pain Management
Locally grown cannabis & its effects
Regional anaesthesia
Anaesthesia & Pain Services in LMIC

Professional associations

Pakistan Medical and Dental Council
Executive member, South Asian Regional Pain Society
Immediate Past President, South Asian Regional Pain Society
Member, International Association for Study of Pain
Executive & Life Member, Pakistan Society of Anaesthesiology
President, Pakistan Society for treatment & Study of Pain, Sindh
Life Member, Pakistan Society for treatment & Study of Pain
Member, European Society of Regional Anaesthesia
Member, WHO Review Panel for Guidelines on pharmacological treatment of acute Pain in adults,2012-2014
Member, WHO Review committee for Guidelines on pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children, 2008–2012
President, South Asian Regional Pain Society, 2012-2014
Faculty of Anaesthesia, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2011-2015
Member, Scientific Committee,15th World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists Congress, March 2012

Awards and honours

Endowed Chair, The Salma & Amin Mohammad Lakhani Family Chair of Anesthesiology, The Aga Khan University, 2011
Best Oral Presentation: 21st ASEAN Congress, Brunei, 2019
Gold Medalist, PSA Conference, Karachi, 2011, 2012, 2019
Higher Education Commission Grants, 2010, 2018
Best poster presentation in the Annual research day, Department of Medicine, AKU, 2018
Best Paper award PSA Conference, Pakistan, 2016
Best Research paper in NYSORA, USA, 2016
Best Poster at PSA Conference, Karachi, 2013
Best Poster at Department Research Retreat, AKU, 2011
Gold Medalist, 25th Silver Jubilee Conference Pakistan Society of Anaesthesiologists (PSA), 2005
Best Research Paper at International Conference of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, New Delhi, India, 2005
Outstanding Teacher Award, AKU, 2005

Created on:04/26/2016 Last modified:04/04/2024